ABSTRACT

Psychological knowledge is a great resource with which to emotionally influence audiences, and writers often incorporate their own personal issues and conflicts into their manuscripts. Film is a fiction, which presents a true picture of reality, even when the director tries to accurately portray a therapist at work. There are psychotherapeutic practices that are done in film that they can be used to understand psychological disorders and the essence of human suffering. Therapies can be distinguished by the different practices they bring to the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic process. Systemic or narrative psychotherapy emphasizes the personal story, or narrative. Modelling is a psychotherapeutic technique in cognitive behavioural therapy and problem solving oriented therapies. Contemporary psychotherapy includes concepts based on established data, goal setting, training social and emotional skills, regulating emotions, changing behavioural strategies, and behavioural experiments to evaluate which strategies work best for particular people.